Madame Baptiste

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Synopsis

The narrator, who is expecting her train, following a funeral procession to care . He learns that the deceased was raped in her youth by a valet , was considered , not without hypocrisy , as an untouchable in his village, until a man 's marriage proposal and brave public opinion to give it a place in society . But an incident brings back the past, and the young woman, overcome by popular stupidity, decided to end it .